Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan

Transcripts For FBC The Intelligence Report With Trish Regan 20170817

Loan that Police Treating barcelona Police Treating this as terrorist attack. Two gunmen stormed into a bar and it is believed they have taken hostages at that bar. It is turkish bar in barcelona. At this hour we do not know if the gunmen inside of the bar are same people involved in todays deadly crash. But as you can imagine intelligence officials are looking at those two seeing whether or not they may be linked. We watch ad market traded off on the news amid the geopolitical concerns, with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 174 point, a loss of nearly 1 on the s p 500. For the very latest on what is happening there in barcelona, i want to go to our very own Ashley Webster in the newsroom of the big headline being, they now have a suspect in custody. They have arrested someone, ashley . This according to a spanish broadcaster. I warn you they can be wildly inaccurate at times in situation just like this, trish, but theyre showing video of a person being arrested and showing a picture of this man. There are reports that a passport was found at the scene of the attack beloved belonging to the driver. A spanish passport of a person of moroccan descent. A second van may be linked to the attack was found 40 miles outside of barcelona. Perhaps it was some sort of a getaway van. Were also being told that the van used in the actual attack was rented in the city of barcelona. This brings back all memories on the attack on London Bridge in the uk, where a similar white van was rented in london before eight people were killed in that attack. A local broadcaster reporting, there is someone, initially reporting two armed men inside after turkish restaurant that have been surrounded by police, of whom they were negotiating with these gunmen. Now being reported that perhaps one of the men in there is indeed the driver. Theyre trying to negotiate to get out of that restaurant. As you can imagine. As you can imagine the city is on high alert. It is under a terrorist warning. Via social media the police are going doortodoor as the area is in lockdown as they continue to find anymore suspects or anyone else connected to this, trish. As ive been saying, since this happened, this main pedestrian thorough fare is huge boulevard. It is treelined. Its a tourist hot spot runs 3 4 of a mile from the center of town to. Traffic runs on either side of the pedestrian walking malls. So what this attacker did, was jumped on that mall, drive some estimates 50 miles an hour, not slowing down. At one point a taxi driver said the van was zigzaging to try to hit as many people as possible. As you mentioned, as of now, Spanish Police only confirming one death, 32 seriously injured. The death toll is expected to rise of the as i mentioned before, as always with these situations information, some of it wrong, some of it accurate, all as we continue to follow this. But we will continue to follow, well bring you latest trish as we get it. Trish thank you very much, ashley. President trump weighed in moments ago on this terror attack, tweeting, and i quote, the United States condemns the terror attack in barcelona, spain, and will do whatever necessary to help be tough and strong. We love you. Joining me right now, former cia officer and National Syndicated radio host buck sexton. Former assistant secretary of defense, larry korb, former fbi dissanity director ron hosco. Start with you, buck. There is some speculation that this might be islamic terrorism. I think that is the overall thought right now given what weve all been through but spain has particular problem as well with separatists, et cetera. In your view, what would lend it to being jihadism . What is it about spain that isis so badly want to target . Well the targets set and the tactics used here mirror exactly what weve seen in other similar vehicular attacks in berlin, in london, in sweden, and nice in france. So this hines up exactly what weve seen in the past for jihadist specific attacks. Spanish separatists this would not go with their mo in the past. As we find out exactly what the perpetrateors are overwhelmingly likely. Haltists at work of the was is isis inspired or directed well find out the process. Hostage situation is still ongoing. This is still ongoing terrorist incident. It is very hard to gauge the full scope and scale until we know it comes to an end. Trish historically tension between spain and catholicism of spain and islamic faith. When you think back historically to what spain was, it was the land of the moores, i wonder, i question, is spain some way a target much like the United States of america is, but for very specific religious reasons . Spain is target for con term larry Foreign Policy reasons and lot of opposition along with u. S. Against jihadism. Historically speaking referred to by jihadists as and dell lucia. Train bombings years ago, that actually turned an election in spain having to do with iraq war back in 2004 you have historical piece that is credit lost jihad it territory in jihadist circles. Trish larry korb, we learned through local reports as ashley pointed out, were getting a lot of information in right now and you have to decipher whats what, indeed one of the suspects is taken into custody. It is believed the person driving the van. How do they go about this . How do they figure out who is responsible, when the person driving the van fled into the crowd . Well, dont forget we share intelligence around the world to prevent these type of attacks as just been pointed out, you have had them in berlin, stockholm. You had them in paris and you had them in nice and this is kind of, you know, the new weapon, if you wills that they use, these vans or cars, that they run into like, they did in london. And a lot of times when you catch these people, theyre willing to talk because many ways they want to be martyrs. I think if you get them they will tell you why they did it and what was their purpose. As pointed out spain worked with us. They were one the few countries supported our invasion of iraq. Why you had the attack in 2004 which 190 people were killed on a train in spain. So, whenever we catch these people theyre more than happy to talk about why theyre doing it. Trish wow. So that could be helpful. We are getting reports they have found one passport, ron, allegedly moroccan passport in the vehicle. Theyre tracing this back. So often in these case, ron, one of the most disappointing things as we learned, this person was known to authorities and thats something well be watching here once again. You know, you look at these situations as they unfold, you say how do do you prevent these . How do you keep the United States safe . First it is robust intelligence sharing internal to the u. S. Between the fbi, dhs, federal, state, local Law Enforcement. It is the intelligence sharing back and forth across the atlantic and the pacific between the United States and its International Intelligence partners. I think that intelligencesharing has certainly grown exponentially since 9 11. In many places that intelligence sharing incredibly robust. Apart from the department of state enclaves around the globe, the fbi occupies legal attaches in 60 plus localities, including morocco. Trish ron, were getting more news coming our way. That is from reuters. Theyre saying there is no one held up there in that bar. Of course we reported earlier it may be a hostage situation in a bar there, in a turkish bar in barcelona. Were learning from reuters now that there is no actual hostage situation going on. So again, a lot of information coming in right now. Perhaps that is one positive headline we can share. Ron you are saying a lot of intelligence sharing across the pond. These are habitual relationships in rabat, algiers. The ages do that. Others do that. So you hope you collectively form a web that is seamless and that the right information is being passed to the right people at the right time. Unfortunately, trish, you made reference to you earlier, there is a familiar refrain here and this is someone who had been on police radar or the Intelligence Services radar. In my fear is, that it ace numbers. There are too many bad guys and potential bad guys and not enough good guys. Trish these hot spots in barcelona where so many people gather to go showing, go out to eat, they are certainly targets. You have many of those places all over the world that the jihadists want to target if in fact that is the case. I want to go to Ashley Webster who has more developing news on the situation. Trish, we have another media outlet in spain saying there is a report that a white ford focus hit a Police Officer a short time ago, when it ran through a police check point. Very close to the scene of the van attack in the las ramblass district. Then people inside the white ford focus, jumped out of the car, began firing at police before escaping on foot. So, whether they were in the restaurant, who knows. That report coming in from spanish media that two gunmen or perhaps more inside a white vehicle running a check point, firing at a Police Officer. One of those officers hit as that car blew through a check point. Clearly the situation is not over. Trish all right. Just to get everybody up to speed here, were following the situation coming to us out of barcelona right now where 32 people are injured according to authorities. One is dead. Were getting local reports of many more may in fact be dead as a result of a van plowing into a crowd there on a crowded boulevard there in barcelona, spain. Where people were gathered for their evening. Well be back with much more as more of this comes forward to us. A lot of developing news right now. I do want to point out the market off 180 points as investors react to the geopolitical situation. Im back right after this. Its a highly contagious disease that can be really serious. Especially for my precious new grandchild. Its whooping cough. Every family member, including those around new babies, should talk to their doctor or pharmacist about getting vaccinated. Track your pack. Set a curfew, or two. Make dinnertime device free. [ music stops ] [ music plays again ] a smarter way to wifi is awesome. 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So that is the video that were looking at. It came from a cell phone. I do also want to point out we have just gotten word a car hit a Police Officer and its occupants, the cars occupants, got out an shot at that Police Officer. So there is clearly a lot of chaos going on right now in the streets of barcelona, as this terrorist event unfolds. They are looking for suspects. They have one person in custody right now. They have also found a moroccan passport inside of that van. Were watching the market near lows of the session, off 187 points here. These losses are accelerating a bit here as people get increasingly nervous about the geopolitical situation. I want to bring in bullseye brief publisher, author adam johnson, and kelly and Company Managing partner, kevin kelly. Good to see you both. Help with perspective around the market as we look at lows of the session, adam, in light of todays events . Trish, markets are doing exactly what you expect markets to do. That is, as you point out, theyre pausing. We dont know exactly what is happening right now in spain. As a result first thing people do they lighten up little bit. They decide to sell things. Youre seeing gold move up. Oil move up ever so slightly. Markets are adjusting the way you expect them to adjust given the Human Emotions here. It is interesting to note, trish, not a wholesale selloff. We dont really know. No reason for anyone to necessarily panic. At least that is some cause for at least, not feeling as bad as we might otherwise. Trish producer, put up, if they would, showing a chart showing sectors that performing the worst today, retail being one of them. Kevin kelly, there is a lot of concern in the market that things are too high or too frothy and that is a correction could be on the way. When you see the gilo political events, people say okay, i will back off right now, there is a little bit of a fear in the marketplace . I think marketplace is assessing confidence levels where they want to be investingwise given much of the market run this year is predicated on soft data numbers like business confidence, consumer confidence. Now that we have had a government that hasnt pushed through any real fiscal reforms they promise for the year, investors are trying to figure out trish they dont know whether they get the tax cuts, et cetera . Yeah. Trish were down definitely at the lows of the session, off 203 points on the dow. We continue to get breaking News Headlines coming in to us. I want to remind our viewers, authorities have taken one person into custody there in barcelona. We had horrific event happening there early this evening, barcelona time where people were perhaps out for an evening stroll, out perhaps for a cocktail or for a drink, out shopping. This is an area where there are a lot of theaters. The opera house there, the Big Department store there in barcelona, is also nearby. So people were outgoing about their business. A lot of tourists in the area as well and they were mowed down by a van. We have seen this happen before. We saw this happen, of course, tragically in the uk. Weve seen it happen very tragically in nice, adam johnson. Yes. And paris by the way and boston and on and on be trish. It is just tragic. Hard to talk about these things because theres no one person responsible. There is no one group responsible. It is just something that seems to somehow be what the world, what all of us are living with. Its very hard. Trish i was going to say, were all living with. There is certain amount of complacency that perhaps sets into the market shall we say. Yes. Trish were not necessarily seeing that today. People are a little spooked by this, a little rattled, as we look at market off 202 points. Go ahead, kevin. Trish, i would like to say were not Touching Base on the fed and that is helping move some markets downward today. Yesterday after the minutes came out from the fed, theyre worried about raising rates again this year, even though they signaled they wanted to do it. So if a quarterpoint move rate hike is scaring the fed, then how bad is it . Trish investors are scared by that, for sure. That is compounding the effect of what is happening. Trish we have a car that allegedly hit a Police Officer there in the streets of barcelona. Its occupants got out and fired at those officers. This coming shortly after the van mowed down those people. We were showing you the video. I disclosed it was hard to watch earlier. We have blurred out a lot of it so you dont have to see all of that carnage but it is devastating to see what is happening, what is happening in the world right now, the kind of barbaric animals that are lashing out at freedom, lashing out at free society. It is speculated right now, though we do not know, this is islamic terrorism. We do know it is terrorism. Adam, kevin, thank you for being here today. Well continue our coverage here. I do want to say local media is reporting as many as 13 casualties. What authorities are calling a terror attack on barcelona. This is in spain, las ramblas, a big tourist area in barcelona. One man is under arrest believed to be in connection with this incident. We also we believe a moroccan passport found in the van driven into the crowd. Aing situation. Well see you right here after this. When a critical patient is far from the hospital, the hospital must come to the patient. Stay with me, mr. Parker. The at t network is helping First Responders connect with medical teams in near real time. Stay with me, mr. Parker. Saving time when it matters most. Stay with me, mrs. Parker. Thats the power of and. Everything i did circled smaround that cigarette when i started taking the chantix that urge just slowly diminished and it was a great and empowering feeling. 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Trish were getting update on number dead of officials there in barcelona. Theyre reporting 13 dead, 50 people injured

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